Pérez-Gómez, Alberto
Pérez-Gómez, Alberto
Bio Sketch
Alberto Pérez-Gómez (b. 1949) is a Spanish-Canadian architectural historian and theorist, known for his phenomenological approach to architectural history. His Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science (1985) traced the loss of symbolic meaning in modern architecture.
Key Works
- Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science (1985)
- Built upon Love: Architectural Longing after Ethics and Aesthetics (2006)
- Architectural Representation and the Perspective Hinge (1997, with Louise Pelletier) — the historiography of the perspective hinge cited by Lois Weinthal's "A pirouette on the orthographic hinge" (note 7); plain text (not yet ingested). See Weinthal's chapter and perspective.
Key Concepts
- phenomenology
- symbolism
- longing
Relevance to Geoffrey's Research
Pérez-Gómez represents the phenomenological-historical approach that seeks to recover architecture's symbolic dimensions. His work connects to themes of dwelling, meaning, and the critique of modernism.
